The title pretty much sums it up. I'm going up and planning on floating it all day. I like going alone, but sometimes it's fun to go with fellow crazies. If you want to tag along, I'd be happy to drive and can also provide a float tube if you'd like (no fins though). Let me know via PM or text me @ 801-641-7641. Let's hope for semi calm winds...
Hit it last weekkend and caught 30 fish, smallest was 19" - hands damn near froze off, but it was worth it. Hoping to slaughter them again. I can also provide flies if you want to try throwing them around. (Found out last week that they work well from a spinning rod with a bubble or with a little weight - even trolling them while heating your hands back up worked.) The fish were absurdly aggressive.
Dave.
Just be careful, there is suppose to be a good storm and heavy winds.
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I'm crazy enough to join you but my work demanded otherwise (and I'm the boss so I guess I can blame my more responsible alter ego).
Be sure and let us know how it went.
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What a beautiful but COLD day in the City, so how was Strawberry?
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Sorry for the late post. The fishing was excellent, and the weather was almost as good. I fished just a few bays up from Bryants Fork from my pontoon and had decent success stripping wooly buggers. I netted three, and lost four or five more -- broken knots, grrrrr -- and had a bunch of strikes. The wind was calm for 40% of the day, middle of the road 20% of the day, and hurricane force the other 40%. It was bi-polar and would switch from one to the other within a few minutes. When I got there, there was only 25 feet of open water from the shore to the ice, but within five minutes, the wind had taken the ice as far away as I could see. The actual bay stayed iced, but everything else opened right up. By 4:00 it was simply too cold to stay in the water. I got out and walked the shoreline stripping buggers and from 4:30 to about 9:00pm, I landed another eight fish. All were cutties, except one Rainbow. None of them broke the slot -- how
. I would've stayed and fished longer, but ice was forming even as I was fishing and my line kept snagging on floating chunks that were forming rapidly.
I fear my days of floating are at an end. /sigh.
You all missed out!
Do you think there is any chance of launching a boat? What about any safe ice also? I was planning on going Sat.
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[quote TroutBumDave]Sorry for the late post. The fishing was excellent, and the weather was almost as good. I fished just a few bays up from Bryants Fork from my pontoon and had decent success stripping wooly buggers. I netted three, and lost four or five more -- broken knots, grrrrr -- and had a bunch of strikes. The wind was calm for 40% of the day, middle of the road 20% of the day, and hurricane force the other 40%. It was bi-polar and would switch from one to the other within a few minutes. When I got there, there was only 25 feet of open water from the shore to the ice, but within five minutes, the wind had taken the ice as far away as I could see. The actual bay stayed iced, but everything else opened right up. By 4:00 it was simply too cold to stay in the water. I got out and walked the shoreline stripping buggers and from 4:30 to about 9:00pm, I landed another eight fish. All were cutties, except one Rainbow. None of them broke the slot -- how
. I would've stayed and fished longer, but ice was forming even as I was fishing and my line kept snagging on floating chunks that were forming rapidly.
I fear my days of floating are at an end. /sigh.
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Great report, wishb I was there for sure....You going again?[sly]
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Nope, I doubt I'll be going again. However, I fished the Jordan today and slaughtered them... Lot's of whities, largemouth, Crappie, and carp -- AND I got my first catfish on the fly. Took a glo bug.
Dude, that is awesome...I would like to try the area you go to...sound interesting.
I am off Mon. Wed and Fri but with Christmas that "can" Change....
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[quote TroutBumDave]Let me know via PM or text me @ 801-641-7641.[/quote]
Sent text to this number and got a picture of someone's morning B.M. back. WTH is that you a freak?
Sorry for not attaching the picture
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^^ LOL
I've been known to send the occasional "Prize Winning Dump" picture to the members of my "Fecal Roster", but I'm pretty sure I didn't send one to you. If I did, consider yourself lucky.
Yours,
Dave.